AKEL denounces the new anticommunist raids and attacks on the CP of Ukraine
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 8th May 2018, Nicosia
AKEL denounces today’s illegal raid by Ukrainian security forces on the home of the President of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Symonenko, as well as in the central offices of the Central Committee of the CP of Ukraine in Kiev, where “searches” were carried out. This is yet another case of the systematic persecution waged against the Communist Party of Ukraine by the regime that emerged after the pro-Western and pro-fascist coup d’état of 2014.
Today’s events are evidently linked to tomorrow’s anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples, which the current regime in Ukraine wants to erase by all means. Furthermore, it is well known that anti-fascist monuments of the Second World War are being demolished today in Ukraine, at the same time as Nazi collaborators and SS units are being honored. The European Union bears enormous responsibilities for these developments, given that it supported the coup d’état and backs the new regime’s policy, indeed agreeing to an EU Association Agreement with Ukraine.
AKEL expresses its full support and solidarity with the Communists of Ukraine. AKEL will again raise the whole issue of the ongoing anti-communist persecution in Ukraine, both at the level of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
